University of California, Los Angeles, Athletics
UCLA Earns School Record GSR of 92 Percent
October 16, 2019 | Bruin Athletics
For the second consecutive year, UCLA Athletics has recorded an all-time high Graduation Success Rate (GSR). This year's rate of 92% exceeds the national average of 88% for Division I schools. The 2019 GSR cohort is based on scholarship student-athletes who entered college as freshmen or transfers in the 2009-10 through 2012-13 classes.
Six Bruin squads โ men's tennis, women's basketball, women's golf, women's gymnastics, women's rowing and women's tennis - had a GSR of 100 percent. Nineteen programs had a GSR of 80 percent or higher, and 13 were at 90 percent or higher. (UCLA has 25 sports; for this report, cross country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field are counted as one sport, and beach volleyball did not begin until 2013).
"As academic rigors at the nation's #1 public university grow ever stronger, to have set a record high Graduation Success Rate for a second-straight year is an incredible accomplishment," said UCLA's Alice and Nahum Lainer Family Director of Athletics Dan Guerrero. "This achievement does not happen without the commitment and collaboration of a small army of individuals across Athletics and campus, as well as the dedication of our student-athletes. This is what being a Bruin is all about."
The GSR is the NCAA's more comprehensive calculation of student-athlete academic success. The NCAA rate is more accurate than the federally-mandated methodology because it is more inclusive of the total student-athlete population. The GSR includes incoming transfers and students enrolling in the winter or spring quarters who receive athletics aid. Student-athletes who leave an institution academically and athletically eligible to compete are removed from their respective cohorts.
